State of Ohio Archives: on Families & Children
JD Vance:
Expanded childcare favors affluent over working class
Vance uses his Twitter feed to position himself as a leading voice in the culture wars while promoting the institutional distrust nurtured by the former president and his allies. Vance argued that
President Joe Biden's push for expanded childcare favored "the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class."
Source: NBC News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
Jul 1, 2021
Jim Renacci:
Marriage should be between one man & one woman
Q: Support gay marriage?Sherrod Brown (D): Yes. "Practicing family values means loving all God's children."
Jim Renacci (R): No. "Marriage should be between one man & one woman."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Ohio Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
John Kasich:
CATCH court: prostitutes are victims of human trafficking
All these ladies are coming into Judge Paul Herbert's court. He's checking them out and putting them all in jail. They find out they've been human trafficked. They're prostitutes because they have a pimp who is out there putting them out on the street.
Drugging them, beating them, all horrible things we can imagine. So the judge is the founder and driving force in Franklin County's CATCH court. Changing Actions to Change Habits. He began to realize that these people were not criminals.
They were not defendants--they were victims. And they should not be subjected to criminal punishment from which they may never recover. His CATCH court diverts these victims into a two-year program that may include residential detox therapy, treatment
for depression and other mental illness, and they can get help to find employment. And best of all, when they graduate, they have the opportunity to have their convictions dismissed and their records sealed. He has helped 200 women get assistance.
Source: 2017 Ohio State of the State address
Apr 5, 2017
John Kasich:
Re-prioritize family planning funds away from abortion
Under Gov. John Kasich (R), countless people in Ohio have lost access to all forms of reproductive health care. But Kasich signed a bill cutting $1.3 million in funding to Planned Parenthood. The cuts [did not target abortion programs, but general
health programs], and also targeted Planned Parenthood's infant mortality program--an issue Kasich falsely claimed to have addressed. Kasich has used his tenure as governor to relentlessly attack women's health on multiple fronts. Kasich's aides
drafted restrictive anti-abortion language in Ohio's 2013 budget, requiring licensing regulations for clinics. This led to the closure of half of the state's outpatient abortion clinics. The bill also contained provisions mandating ultrasounds for
abortions, blocking funding for rape crisis centers that provide information about abortion, and "re-prioritizing" family planning funds away from Planned Parenthood to crisis pregnancy centers, which routinely lie to patients.
Source: Rewire.com FactCheck on 2018 Ohio Gubernatorial race
Mar 30, 2016
John Kasich:
De-fund all family planning centers that discuss abortion
Kasich signed a bill that merges his party's anti-contraception and anti-abortion agendas into one. The budget bill packs a one-two-three punch of making it harder for women to prevent pregnancies, harder for women to terminate pregnancies, and harder
for low-income women to keep their babies. HB59 has a bunch of severe anti-abortion riders on it, including a mandatory ultrasound. The defunding of contraception services in the state may manage to do even more damage to women's health than the
abortion restrictions.
Family planning centers will now basically not be able to get any funding at all for contraception services, even if they don't provide abortion. Merely making abortion referrals, which all medically respectable clinics do,
is enough to make your clinic last priority for funding. And it's not just contraception providers that are hurt by acknowledging that abortion exists. If a rape crisis center counsels a woman who asks about abortion, they will also be defunded.
Source: Slate.com on Ohio legislative records: House Bill 59
Jul 1, 2013
Jon Husted:
American family is broken without two loving parents
On schools: "I got two parents who loved me, taught me good values and prepared me for life. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't be here today. I wouldn't have much of an opportunity," Husted said of his adoptive parents. "There's no better instrument
of education than two loving parents who give a great upbringing to a child and get them launched into life with some hope," he said. "Problem is, we have so many who won't, or can't. The American family today is probably as broken as it has ever been."
Source: Toledo Blade on 2018 Ohio gubernatorial race
May 23, 2017
Mike DeWine:
Religious employers may exclude contraception from insurance
Q: Contraception: Allow employers to withhold contraceptive coverage from employees if they disagree with it morally?Richard Cordray (D): No. Require employers to provide coverage of contraception in health insurance plans.
Considers it key element of women's health care.
Mike DeWine (R): Yes. Considers this an issue of religious freedom for employers.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Ohio Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Mike DeWine:
Got waiver to deliver school lunches to quarantined kids
Something very important for us, when we close the schools, we want to make sure that kids continue to get food. Department of Agriculture gave us a waiver within 24 hours, so we can actually take this food, this normal school lunch program, and take
it out to kids, distribute it in different areas. Some school districts are actually going to take that out, put it on a bus, and travel around and distributing it. But we have had to get a waiver from the federal government.
Source: CNN 2020 "State of the Union": 2022 Ohio Gubernatorial race
Mar 15, 2020
Mike DeWine:
Help kids with multiple medical and behavioral challenges
We have started the reform of Medicaid out of our shared-commitment to multi-system kids, through a program we call OhioRISE. Under OhioRise, children who have multiple medical and behavioral health
challenges will now get the help they need -- in their own communities. Parents will no longer be forced to give up custody in order to get their children the help they need -- and families will stay together.
Source: 2022 State of the State Address to the Ohio legislature
Mar 23, 2022
Nan Whaley:
Made Dayton a better place to live, work, and raise a family
Nan has aggressively focused on ensuring that all of our children have access to educational opportunities that will prepare them for the workplaces of the future. In 2016, on the night that Donald Trump won Ohio, Dayton voters approved her plan to fund
access to high-quality preschool for every 4-year-old in the city. Under her leadership, Dayton was proud to become the first major Ohio city to offer paid parental leave for municipal employees, improving economic security for new parents.
Source: 2022 Ohio Governor campaign website NanWhaleyForOhio.com
Apr 6, 2021
P.G. Sittenfeld:
Fight for the right to paid sick days
When employees are required to work more than 40 hours per week, I agree with President Obama that employers should be required to pay time and a half wages--and I will seek more generous child care assistance for parents who want to work but can't
afford the sky-high costs of quality day care.I will also fight for the right of full-time workers to earn a set number of paid sick days each year. Right now,
America is the only major industrialized country that does not require employers to provide paid sick days. Well, I say that if all those other countries can do it without hurting their economies, we can too.
And when I become a Senator, I won't rest until paid sick days become a reality--not just in Ohio, but for hard-working people all across America.
Source: 2016 Ohio Senate race: Center of Hope Baptist Church speech
Aug 9, 2015
Richard Cordray:
Focus on kitchen table issues & improving family life
Former consumer watchdog Richard Cordray says he will focus his campaign for governor on improving the lives of Ohio's families.
At a hometown diner crowded with press and supporters, the 58-year-old Cordray said Tuesday that he will focus on "kitchen table issues" like the costs of health care and college.
Source: WLWT 5 Cincinnati on 2018 Ohio gubernatorial race
Dec 5, 2017
Richard Cordray:
Require contraception as part of all employer health plans
Q: Contraception: Allow employers to withhold contraceptive coverage from employees if they disagree with it morally?Richard Cordray (D): No. Require employers to provide coverage of contraception in health insurance plans.
Considers it key element of women's health care.
Mike DeWine (R): Yes. Considers this an issue of religious freedom for employers.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Ohio Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Sherrod Brown:
Practicing family values means loving all God's children
Q: Support gay marriage?Sherrod Brown (D): Yes. "Practicing family values means loving all God's children."
Jim Renacci (R): No. "Marriage should be between one man & one woman."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Ohio Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
Mike DeWine:
Repeal the State's sales tax on critical infant supplies
To ease the financial burden on new parents, our budget asks you to repeal the State's sales tax on critical infant supplies, things such as diapers,
wipes, cribs, car seats, strollers, and safety equipment. Further, I am also asking you to enact a $2,500 per child state tax deduction!
Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the Ohio legislature
Jan 31, 2023
JD Vance:
Don't be too quick to leave a marriage to violent spouse
Vance suggested in comments captured on video that parents struggling in violent or abusive marriages shouldn't rush to get divorced. Vance's comments were recorded last September during an event at a California high school. The senatorial candidate's
own parents divorced when he was younger, with his grandparents soon becoming his and his sister's primary caretakers, according to his autobiographical book, "Hillbilly Elegy."In the recorded video, Vance suggested that the "sexual revolution"
was to blame for people being too quick to leave their marriages. He further stated that a person shouldn't necessarily seek a divorce due to a violent spouse, and said that the
victim of the violence should try to make things work to ensure their child's happiness and well-being in the long term. His comments contradict what experts say is best for adults and children in those situations.
Source: Truthout.org on 2022 Ohio Senate race
Jul 25, 2022
JD Vance:
Divorce might be better for mom & dad, but not for the kids
[On ending an unhappy marriage]: "This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace," Vance said in the video [recorded in California last September], "which is the idea that like, 'well, OK, these
marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that's going to make people happier in
the long term.'" Vance rejected that premise."Maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I'm skeptical. But it really didn't work out for the kids of those marriages," he claimed. "And that's what I think all of us should be honest about, is
we've run this experiment in real time. And what we have is a lot of very, very real family dysfunction that's making our kids unhappy."
Decades of research back up say that "staying together for the kids" is not always the best option for couples.
Source: Truthout.org on 2022 Ohio Senate race
Jul 25, 2022
JD Vance:
Get rid of marriage penalty; make it easier to raise family
Candidate Profile Questionnaire: ECONOMY: - Q: What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?
A: We need to get rid of the marriage penalty. We need to make it easier for married men and women to have children, own a home and raise a
family. - Q: Redistribution of income is needed to lessen the gap between the wealthy and working classes?
A: Strongly Disagree. - Q: The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt?
A: Strongly Agree
Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2022 Ohio Senate
Nov 1, 2022
Frank LaRose:
Children are a gift from God and not an inconvenience
Frank is a Christian, and a father of three girls. His faith teaches that children are a gift from God and not an inconvenience.
He fought for policies that not only protect the sanctity of human life but also support the critical importance of families. As a U.S. Senator, Frank will take those same values to Washington.
Source: 2024 Ohio Senate campaign website FrankLaRose.com
Jul 25, 2023
Frank LaRose:
Marriage is a God-ordained union of one man and one woman
Q: VALUES: Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition?A: Agree
Q: Children are the most vulnerable members of society and must be protected from abuse, including gender ideology, grooming, and bodily mutilation?
A: Strongly Agree
Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2024 Ohio Senate race
Mar 19, 2024
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